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Older adults in the digital age in Latin America: bridging the digital age divide
- Author(s):
- Sunkel, Guillermo |
- Ullmann, Heidi
- Serie:
- No.
- 127
- Date Issued
- 2019-04-15
- Physical Description
- p. 215-236; grafs., tabls.
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In recent decades, countries across Latin America have entered a stage of sustained population ageing. In parallel, changes associated with the rise of the digital society have profoundly transformed the way in which people in the region interact with each other and with their governments. This pap...
The great divide: economic complexity and development paths in Brazil and the Republic of Korea
- Author(s):
- Britto, Gustavo |
- Romero, João Prates |
- Freitas, Elton |
- Coelho, Clara
- Serie:
- No.
- 127
- Date Issued
- 2019-04-15
- Physical Description
- p. 191-213; grafs., tabls.
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This paper uses the product space methodology to gain new perspectives on the relationship between economic complexity and economic development, illustrated by case studies of Brazil and the Republic of Korea. It takes import data as an indicator of revealed comparative disadvantage to highlight th...
Who has been driving the creation of industrial employment in Argentina? An analysis of the role of innovation
- Author(s):
- Pereira, Mariano |
- Tacsir, Ezequiel
- Serie:
- No.
- 127
- Date Issued
- 2019-04-15
- Physical Description
- p. 171-189; diagrs., tabls.
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This paper analyses the relationship between innovation and job creation in firms. In particular, it seeks out data on the role played by innovation during the latest phase of expansion in Argentine manufacturing employment (2010–2012). It uses the model proposed by Harrison and others (2014), taki...
External constraints on the Cuban economy in the current environment of uncertainty
- Author(s):
- Palacios C., Juan Carlos
- Serie:
- No.
- 127
- Date Issued
- 2019-04-15
- Physical Description
- p. 153-170; grafs., tabls.
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This study seeks to explore the external factors that are acting as constraints on the Cuban economy and to identify the main opportunities that are open to it and the main threats that it faces in the current context of uncertainty. In order to accomplish this, a balance-of-payments-constrained gr...
Analysis of Brazilian industry’s dependency on imported inputs between 2000 and 2014
- Author(s):
- Mortari, Valéria Silva |
- Oliveira, Maria Aparecida Silva
- Serie:
- No.
- 127
- Date Issued
- 2019-04-15
- Physical Description
- p. 131-152; grafs., tabls.
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the extent to which different sectors of Brazilian industry were dependent on imported inputs between 2000 and 2014. The methodology of input-output analysis was used for this purpose, and the sectors were classified according to their direct and indirect demand ...
Labour market fluidity and employment outcomes in Colombia: evidence from employer-employee linked data
- Author(s):
- Morales, Leonardo Fabio |
- Medina, Daniel
- Serie:
- No.
- 127
- Date Issued
- 2019-04-15
- Physical Description
- p. 109-130; grafs., tabls.
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Labour market flexibility has been a traditional subject of study in labour economics; recent literature has focused on the related concept of fluidity, broadly understood as the mobility of workers and jobs in the labour market. Here, we compute standard measures of fluidity for the Colombian urba...
Trade misinvoicing in copper products: a case study of Chile and Peru
- Author(s):
- Hanni, Michael |
- Podestá, Andrea
- Serie:
- No.
- 127
- Date Issued
- 2019-04-15
- Physical Description
- p. 91-108; diagrs., grafs., tabls.
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This study examines the underinvoicing of exports of copper concentrates and refined copper cathodes from Chile and Peru. A novel methodology, which takes the industry’s standard contractual terms and insurance and freight costs into account, is used to reveal the existence of below-market unit pri...
Argentina’s competitiveness matrix: the natural resource controversy and the country’s evolving trade position
- Author(s):
- Fernández, Virginia Laura |
- Curado, Marcelo Luiz
- Serie:
- No.
- 127
- Date Issued
- 2019-04-15
- Physical Description
- p. 67-89; diagrs., grafs., tabls.
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This paper uses Fajnzylber and Mandeng’s competitiveness matrix to analyse the evolving structure of Argentine exports between 1985 and 2010. In particular, it seeks to identify links between the country’s export pattern, in which natural resources predominate, and the evolving structures of differ...
Local economic development policies in Chile’s municipalities: beyond welfarism
- Author(s):
- Dini, Marco |
- Correa Mautz, Felipe
- Serie:
- No.
- 127
- Date Issued
- 2019-04-15
- Physical Description
- p. 49-65; grafs., tabls.
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To what extent are local economic development policies limited to a welfare approach in Chile? The hypothesis pursued in this work is that, taken together, these policies far exceed this paradigm. For the study, a register of 40 policy categories was taken by means of a reading and systematization ...
Productive investment in Chile’s economic development: trend and challenges
- Author(s):
- Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo |
- Díaz Pérez, Álvaro
- Serie:
- No.
- 127
- Date Issued
- 2019-04-15
- Physical Description
- p. 25-48; grafs., tabls.
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This article reviews the trend of investment in Chile and its relationship with economic growth since the 1973 coup d’état; and it documents how investment remains the main growth driver. Notwithstanding that fact, innovation helps to mitigate diminishing returns from natural resources, while techn...